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Illinois Wesleyan
VOL. 55 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1940
IWU Statistics
Indicate Gain
Of One Head
Ratio Of Men
To Women Is
Three To One
Total enrollment at Wesleyan
has increased by one person this
year, according to figures from
the registrar's office. This semes-ter's
census reveals 1,282 students
while last semester 1,281 stu-dents
were enrolled.
Thirty-six per cent of the stu-dent
body are women this semes-ter..
Of the 819 men on campus, 145
are married, while there are only
16 married women enrolled.
This year the freshman class
numbers 378 as against 375 the
second semester of last year.
There are 341 sophomores, 304
juniors, and 231 seniors. Veter-ans
on campus number 466. Eight
of these are women.
The music school claimed 239
students this semester. There. are
approximately 80 art majors, in-cluding
14 seniors enrolled. In
addition there are 13 graduate
pupils in that division of the
university.
Smith, Ippel Lead
Newly Organized
Republican Club
On September 23, a group of
Republican students met to or-ganize
a College Republican clult
of Illinois Wesleyan university.
They named as their officers-Al
Smith and Jerry Ippel co-chair-men,
with Barb Markland, sec-retary-
treasurer. As chairmen of
necessary committees Paul Bod-ley
w a s named membershi
chairman; Dean Spriggs, pro-gram;
and Jobie Sayler, pub-licity.
The club's goal is one hundred
per cent registration and vote
from the eligible student body in
the coming November 2 elec-tion.
Registration must be com-pleted
by this coming weekend
so all of the students who are
not registered are to'watch the
bulletin board in Duration hall
for further information.
Everyone interested in this or-ganization
is cordially invited to
join.
To Elect Class
Officers Oct. 20
It has been announced that
class elections will occur Wed-nesday,
Oct. 20, at the time of
regular convocation.
Nell Alexander is the general
chairman of the class elections
committee, with a representa-tive
from each class serving un-der
her: Selma Chace, Russell
Olsen, Bob Harris, and Donna
Lou Thompson.
Announce 'Of Thee I Sing' Cast
Basso, Harrington Take Leads
Record Shows
Thirty Faiths
On Campus
Approximately 30 religious de-nominations
are represented in
the student body this year. With
the Methodists in the majority,
practically all recognized Chris-tian
churches and various other
faiths claim members on this
campus.
This year, of the total student
body of 1,282, the Methodists
number 519. This figure repre-sents
an increase of 11 members
in the Methodist divisions since
last year.
Following the Methodists in
order of size of membership on
campus are the Presbyterians
with 131, and the Roman Cath-olics
with 113 members. Also well
represented are the Christian,
Lutheran, Baptist, and Congre-gational
churches.
The Hindu religion is among
the faiths represented on the
campus, as are also the Mormon,
Mennonite, and Quaker. Only 37
students stated no church pref-erence
this year as against 84
who were unclassified last year.
Students Elect
INew Varsity
Cheerleaders
Three new varsity cheerlead-ers
were elected by the student
body in convocation last Wed-nesday
from a field of seven can-didates,
each of whom was given
a chance to display her talents
in a brief pep session before bal-loting
took place.
Those selected for the varsity
group are Martha Wyckoff, Joan
Bohmann, and Dorothy Rich.
Holdover varsity cheerleaders in-clude
Mary Lou Gooding, John
Wolf, and Joe Solls.
iThe remaining four candidates
will act as "B" squad cheerlead-ers,
substituting for the varsity
members when necessary. The
reserves will be eligible to try
for varsity posts next year.
Serving on the "B" squad will
be Marcia Connell, Shirley Hen-derson,
Eleanor Pregl, and Miss
Dorothy Gallagher.
IRC's First Meeting
Thursday Evening
Members of the International
Relations club will hold their
first meeting of the year tomnor-row
evening at 7:30 o'clock in
room 24 of Presser hall. All stu-dents
are invited to attend.
Principal characters in the
Illinois Wesleyan Homecoming
musical, "Of Thee I Sing," were
announced this week by Law-rence
Tucker, director of the
show and head of the dramatics
departsnent.
The part of Wintergreen, the
happy-go-lucky young man who
becomes president on a very un-usual
platform, was won by Al-bert
Basso, the baritone who
starred as Valentine in the opera
"Faust," given early last spring.
First Lady
Mary Turner, the secretary
who becomes the nation's first
lady, is being played by Pauline
Harrington, mezzo-soprano.
Alexander Throttlebottom3 the
vice-president whom no one rec-ognizes,
is portrayed by Bill
Duell. The parts of Lippman and
Gilhooley, members of the cam-paign
committee and later mem-bers
of the cabiet, were cast to
Darrel Piersol and Jim Lucas.
Senators Jones and Lyons are
played by Bill Bigger and Bob
Price.
Chris D'Amelio portrays the
part of Mrs. Benson.
Jilted Beauty
The sultry Diana, winner of
the campaign beauty contest and
jilted wife-to-be of Wintergreen,
is played by Billie Lou Brummel.
Mathew Arnold Fulton, head of
the campaign committee and
later secretary of state, is por-trayed
by Bill Tagg.
The parts of Jenkins and the
French ambassador are played
by Paul Stitcher and Paul Welles.
"Of Thee I Sing" will be pre-sented
at the Scottish Rite tem-ple
on Friday and Saturday eve-nings,
Oct. 29 and 30. Tickets
will soon be available at the Me-morial
Center and uptown at the
W. B. Read & Company and at
the Miller Music company.
Open Rushing
For Women
Begins Friday
Open rushing for women will
begin October 1. Girls who wish
to go through rushing must sign
up at Dean Meierhofer's office.
The open rushing fee is $1,
which will be required of those
who have not previously paid the
rushing fee.
Distribute
Activity Tickets Al
Memorial Center
Student activity tickets will be
distributed by the hostesses at
the information desk in the Me-m.
oTrhiael Center. tickets will be out in time
for use at the game Saturday.
New Committees
Named For
Religious Activities
Kenneth Engleman, chairman
of the Religious Activities com-mission,
has announced that the
following committees will be in
charge of the religious activities
on the Wesleyan campus.
Serving for the year as mem-bers
of the publicity committee
with the chairman, Art Smith,
are: Helenjean Laliterbach, Mar-ilyn
Darling, Trudy White, and
Alice Varney. Gay Hendrixon, as
chairman, with Wilberta Naden,
will act in charge of the regular
Monday evening Vesper services.
Handling the subscriptions for
"motive" are the chairman, June
Yolton, Dorothy Pierson, and Na-dine
Callahan as her assistants,
while Adelaide Hayes is chair-man
for the Student Volunteer
movement.
Committees appointed to serve
during the first semester in-clude:
Religion in Life, Carol
Jean Brill, Marge Jeckel, Frank
Zern; Student Christian Fellow-ship,
Marina Zaccaro, Sam Smi-ley,
Steve Gaston, Clara Siapno,
Howard Eldrenkemp, Lester Ott,
Adelaide Hayes; Episcopoi, Dave
Reid, president; Steve Gaston,
vice-president; a n d Adelaide
Hayes, secretary-treasurer.
Academy of Science
Sponsors Exhibit of
Scientific Photographs
The Academy of Science is
sponsoring an exhibit of prize-winning
photographs which is to
be at the Memorial, Center
lounge starting October 1 and
continuing until October 15.
These photographs have been
sent to Wesleyan by the Ameri-can
Association for the Advance-ment
of Science and the Scien-tific
Monthly magazine.
The pictures, which are of a
scientific nature, have been dis-played
in various institutions
throughout the country, includ-ing
the Smithsonian Institute.
Masquers Meeting
There will be a meeting of
all Masquers and people inter-ested
in working towards Mas-quers
membership at 3 p.m. to-day
in the Memorial lounge.
This concerns the coming pro-duction,
"Of Thee I Sing."
PRE-MED EXAMS
All pre-med students who
wish to take the graduate ex-aminations
around October 30
should call at Mr. Dooley's or
Mrs. Delbridge's offices before
October 7 for the application
blanks.
R. Dooley.
NO. 4
Greek-Indee
Sing Part Of
Homecoming
Independents In
Keg Competition
As a result of a meeting of
choral directors from each or-ganization
on campus last Fri-day,
it was decided that the In-dependent
Women's and Inde-pendent
M e n' s organizations
would compete for the Home-coming
keg by participating in
all the contests.
This year, inorder to make fair
the competition for the keg, the
Greek Sing will be changed to
Greek-Indee Sing. Independent
men will complete with liberal
arts fraternities and Independ-ent
women will compete against
liberal arts sororities. However,
the personnel of each Independ-ent
group will be limited to a
maximum of 50, with a maxi-mum
of 10 per cent of that per-sonnel
to be from the School of
Music.
Songs, it was ruled, must have
words pertaining to the organ-ization,
but needn't be original
melodically; each group was lim-ited
to two songs.
Music school organizations will
be broadcast over WJBC as a
final group.
Also to be broadcast at the
very end of the cnotest is a com-bined
chorus made up of repre-sentatives
from each fraternity,
sorority, and Indee organization.
Directed by Don Mathis, this
chorus will sing school songs.
Loidolt to Tell
Of Amsterdam
Church Council
Baptist Minister
Accredited Delegate
To World Council
Convocation speaker for Oc-tober
6 will be the Rev. Rudolph
Loidolt, accredited delegate to
the first assembly of the World
Council of Churches, and pastor
of the First Baptist church in
Bloomington.
Reverend Loidolt, who attend-ed
every session of the council
in Amsterdam from August 22 to
September 4, will base his talk
on the theme of the council,
"God's Design and Man's Dis-order."
The conference was classified
into four commissions, each of
which will have an important
bearing on Reverend Loidolt's
speech. The commissions are
named as follows: the universal
church and God's design; the
witness to God's design; the
church and social disorder; and
the church and international
disorder.
The convocation program to-day
was presented by freshmen
receiving scholarships in the
School of Music.
BUCK MEMORIAL LIRA~Y
LLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
T. ~IT B R~

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Illinois Wesleyan
VOL. 55 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1940
IWU Statistics
Indicate Gain
Of One Head
Ratio Of Men
To Women Is
Three To One
Total enrollment at Wesleyan
has increased by one person this
year, according to figures from
the registrar's office. This semes-ter's
census reveals 1,282 students
while last semester 1,281 stu-dents
were enrolled.
Thirty-six per cent of the stu-dent
body are women this semes-ter..
Of the 819 men on campus, 145
are married, while there are only
16 married women enrolled.
This year the freshman class
numbers 378 as against 375 the
second semester of last year.
There are 341 sophomores, 304
juniors, and 231 seniors. Veter-ans
on campus number 466. Eight
of these are women.
The music school claimed 239
students this semester. There. are
approximately 80 art majors, in-cluding
14 seniors enrolled. In
addition there are 13 graduate
pupils in that division of the
university.
Smith, Ippel Lead
Newly Organized
Republican Club
On September 23, a group of
Republican students met to or-ganize
a College Republican clult
of Illinois Wesleyan university.
They named as their officers-Al
Smith and Jerry Ippel co-chair-men,
with Barb Markland, sec-retary-
treasurer. As chairmen of
necessary committees Paul Bod-ley
w a s named membershi
chairman; Dean Spriggs, pro-gram;
and Jobie Sayler, pub-licity.
The club's goal is one hundred
per cent registration and vote
from the eligible student body in
the coming November 2 elec-tion.
Registration must be com-pleted
by this coming weekend
so all of the students who are
not registered are to'watch the
bulletin board in Duration hall
for further information.
Everyone interested in this or-ganization
is cordially invited to
join.
To Elect Class
Officers Oct. 20
It has been announced that
class elections will occur Wed-nesday,
Oct. 20, at the time of
regular convocation.
Nell Alexander is the general
chairman of the class elections
committee, with a representa-tive
from each class serving un-der
her: Selma Chace, Russell
Olsen, Bob Harris, and Donna
Lou Thompson.
Announce 'Of Thee I Sing' Cast
Basso, Harrington Take Leads
Record Shows
Thirty Faiths
On Campus
Approximately 30 religious de-nominations
are represented in
the student body this year. With
the Methodists in the majority,
practically all recognized Chris-tian
churches and various other
faiths claim members on this
campus.
This year, of the total student
body of 1,282, the Methodists
number 519. This figure repre-sents
an increase of 11 members
in the Methodist divisions since
last year.
Following the Methodists in
order of size of membership on
campus are the Presbyterians
with 131, and the Roman Cath-olics
with 113 members. Also well
represented are the Christian,
Lutheran, Baptist, and Congre-gational
churches.
The Hindu religion is among
the faiths represented on the
campus, as are also the Mormon,
Mennonite, and Quaker. Only 37
students stated no church pref-erence
this year as against 84
who were unclassified last year.
Students Elect
INew Varsity
Cheerleaders
Three new varsity cheerlead-ers
were elected by the student
body in convocation last Wed-nesday
from a field of seven can-didates,
each of whom was given
a chance to display her talents
in a brief pep session before bal-loting
took place.
Those selected for the varsity
group are Martha Wyckoff, Joan
Bohmann, and Dorothy Rich.
Holdover varsity cheerleaders in-clude
Mary Lou Gooding, John
Wolf, and Joe Solls.
iThe remaining four candidates
will act as "B" squad cheerlead-ers,
substituting for the varsity
members when necessary. The
reserves will be eligible to try
for varsity posts next year.
Serving on the "B" squad will
be Marcia Connell, Shirley Hen-derson,
Eleanor Pregl, and Miss
Dorothy Gallagher.
IRC's First Meeting
Thursday Evening
Members of the International
Relations club will hold their
first meeting of the year tomnor-row
evening at 7:30 o'clock in
room 24 of Presser hall. All stu-dents
are invited to attend.
Principal characters in the
Illinois Wesleyan Homecoming
musical, "Of Thee I Sing," were
announced this week by Law-rence
Tucker, director of the
show and head of the dramatics
departsnent.
The part of Wintergreen, the
happy-go-lucky young man who
becomes president on a very un-usual
platform, was won by Al-bert
Basso, the baritone who
starred as Valentine in the opera
"Faust," given early last spring.
First Lady
Mary Turner, the secretary
who becomes the nation's first
lady, is being played by Pauline
Harrington, mezzo-soprano.
Alexander Throttlebottom3 the
vice-president whom no one rec-ognizes,
is portrayed by Bill
Duell. The parts of Lippman and
Gilhooley, members of the cam-paign
committee and later mem-bers
of the cabiet, were cast to
Darrel Piersol and Jim Lucas.
Senators Jones and Lyons are
played by Bill Bigger and Bob
Price.
Chris D'Amelio portrays the
part of Mrs. Benson.
Jilted Beauty
The sultry Diana, winner of
the campaign beauty contest and
jilted wife-to-be of Wintergreen,
is played by Billie Lou Brummel.
Mathew Arnold Fulton, head of
the campaign committee and
later secretary of state, is por-trayed
by Bill Tagg.
The parts of Jenkins and the
French ambassador are played
by Paul Stitcher and Paul Welles.
"Of Thee I Sing" will be pre-sented
at the Scottish Rite tem-ple
on Friday and Saturday eve-nings,
Oct. 29 and 30. Tickets
will soon be available at the Me-morial
Center and uptown at the
W. B. Read & Company and at
the Miller Music company.
Open Rushing
For Women
Begins Friday
Open rushing for women will
begin October 1. Girls who wish
to go through rushing must sign
up at Dean Meierhofer's office.
The open rushing fee is $1,
which will be required of those
who have not previously paid the
rushing fee.
Distribute
Activity Tickets Al
Memorial Center
Student activity tickets will be
distributed by the hostesses at
the information desk in the Me-m.
oTrhiael Center. tickets will be out in time
for use at the game Saturday.
New Committees
Named For
Religious Activities
Kenneth Engleman, chairman
of the Religious Activities com-mission,
has announced that the
following committees will be in
charge of the religious activities
on the Wesleyan campus.
Serving for the year as mem-bers
of the publicity committee
with the chairman, Art Smith,
are: Helenjean Laliterbach, Mar-ilyn
Darling, Trudy White, and
Alice Varney. Gay Hendrixon, as
chairman, with Wilberta Naden,
will act in charge of the regular
Monday evening Vesper services.
Handling the subscriptions for
"motive" are the chairman, June
Yolton, Dorothy Pierson, and Na-dine
Callahan as her assistants,
while Adelaide Hayes is chair-man
for the Student Volunteer
movement.
Committees appointed to serve
during the first semester in-clude:
Religion in Life, Carol
Jean Brill, Marge Jeckel, Frank
Zern; Student Christian Fellow-ship,
Marina Zaccaro, Sam Smi-ley,
Steve Gaston, Clara Siapno,
Howard Eldrenkemp, Lester Ott,
Adelaide Hayes; Episcopoi, Dave
Reid, president; Steve Gaston,
vice-president; a n d Adelaide
Hayes, secretary-treasurer.
Academy of Science
Sponsors Exhibit of
Scientific Photographs
The Academy of Science is
sponsoring an exhibit of prize-winning
photographs which is to
be at the Memorial, Center
lounge starting October 1 and
continuing until October 15.
These photographs have been
sent to Wesleyan by the Ameri-can
Association for the Advance-ment
of Science and the Scien-tific
Monthly magazine.
The pictures, which are of a
scientific nature, have been dis-played
in various institutions
throughout the country, includ-ing
the Smithsonian Institute.
Masquers Meeting
There will be a meeting of
all Masquers and people inter-ested
in working towards Mas-quers
membership at 3 p.m. to-day
in the Memorial lounge.
This concerns the coming pro-duction,
"Of Thee I Sing."
PRE-MED EXAMS
All pre-med students who
wish to take the graduate ex-aminations
around October 30
should call at Mr. Dooley's or
Mrs. Delbridge's offices before
October 7 for the application
blanks.
R. Dooley.
NO. 4
Greek-Indee
Sing Part Of
Homecoming
Independents In
Keg Competition
As a result of a meeting of
choral directors from each or-ganization
on campus last Fri-day,
it was decided that the In-dependent
Women's and Inde-pendent
M e n' s organizations
would compete for the Home-coming
keg by participating in
all the contests.
This year, inorder to make fair
the competition for the keg, the
Greek Sing will be changed to
Greek-Indee Sing. Independent
men will complete with liberal
arts fraternities and Independ-ent
women will compete against
liberal arts sororities. However,
the personnel of each Independ-ent
group will be limited to a
maximum of 50, with a maxi-mum
of 10 per cent of that per-sonnel
to be from the School of
Music.
Songs, it was ruled, must have
words pertaining to the organ-ization,
but needn't be original
melodically; each group was lim-ited
to two songs.
Music school organizations will
be broadcast over WJBC as a
final group.
Also to be broadcast at the
very end of the cnotest is a com-bined
chorus made up of repre-sentatives
from each fraternity,
sorority, and Indee organization.
Directed by Don Mathis, this
chorus will sing school songs.
Loidolt to Tell
Of Amsterdam
Church Council
Baptist Minister
Accredited Delegate
To World Council
Convocation speaker for Oc-tober
6 will be the Rev. Rudolph
Loidolt, accredited delegate to
the first assembly of the World
Council of Churches, and pastor
of the First Baptist church in
Bloomington.
Reverend Loidolt, who attend-ed
every session of the council
in Amsterdam from August 22 to
September 4, will base his talk
on the theme of the council,
"God's Design and Man's Dis-order."
The conference was classified
into four commissions, each of
which will have an important
bearing on Reverend Loidolt's
speech. The commissions are
named as follows: the universal
church and God's design; the
witness to God's design; the
church and social disorder; and
the church and international
disorder.
The convocation program to-day
was presented by freshmen
receiving scholarships in the
School of Music.
BUCK MEMORIAL LIRA~Y
LLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
T. ~IT B R~